Rowan Halt railway station

Rowan Halt
Rowan Halt station
Location
Place	Hove
Area	Brighton & Hove
Operations
Pre-grouping	Dyke Railway Company[1]
Platforms	1[2]
History
12 January 1934	Opened
1 January 1939	Closed
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Rowan Avenue junction with Elm Drive

Rowan Halt railway station^[3][4], was a railway station in Hove, in East Sussex, England which opened in 1934 and closed on 1st Jan 1939; the layout and curvature of Rowan Avenue indicates where the branch ran ^[5].

The station served the Aldrington Estate (then being built by T. J. Braybon & Sons Ltd) - and "enabled residents working in Brighton or Hove to return home for their cooked meal at lunchtime" ^[5].

References

1. ^ J T Howard Turner (1977). The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Volume 1 Origins and Foundation. ISBN 0-7134-0275-X. 
2. ^ H P White (1976). Forgotten Railways: South East England. ISBN 0-7153-7286-6. 
3. ^ Harding, Peter A. The Dyke Branch Line. ISBN 0-9523458-5-4. 
4. ^ Clark, Paul (1976). The Railways of Devil's Dyke. Crown Press Keighley Ltd. ISBN 0-902844-35-0. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "Sussex Branch Lines - Two Branches and a Siding". http://www.sussexias.co.uk/articles/branch_7.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-09. 

Coordinates: 50°50′23.54″N 0°11′40.63″W / 50.8398722°N 0.1946194°W / 50.8398722; -0.1946194